Off-shell superconformal higher spin multiplets in four dimensions

Abstract

Abstract We formulate off-shell N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 superconformal higher spin multiplets in four spacetime dimensions and briefly discuss their coupling to conformal supergravity. As an example, we explicitly work out the coupling of the superconformal gravitino multiplet to conformal supergravity. The corresponding action is super-Weyl invariant for arbitrary supergravity backgrounds. However, it is gauge invariant only if the supersymmetric Bach tensor vanishes. This is similar to linearised conformal supergravity in curved background.

Keywords

• Higher Spin Symmetry
• Conformal Field Theory
• Superspaces